Moses - Part 6
Notes
Transcript
Recap
Recap
I. The Birth of Moses
a. He was born in adversity
b. He was saved by his mother
c. He was found by the princess
II.
a. Moses spent 40 years in Egypt
b. Moses watched his people suffer wrongfully
c. Moses killed the Egyptian
d. Moses fled in fear (to Midian)
III.
a. Moses was in Midian for 40 years
b. There was an identity crisis (vs. 9 “…an Egyptian delivered us…”
c. God Sees (God heard their cry, remembered his covenant, looked upon them and had respect unto them)
d. The communication to Moses (the place: Mount Horeb - The mountain of God - Mt. Sinai, the person was the angel of the Lord)
IV.
a. Moses inquired at the sight
b. Moses approached and listened (God didn’t speak until Moses approached closer)
c. We need to reverence God’s voice
V.
a. Sharing God’s Sight (“I have seen their affliction” Do you? “I have seen their sorrows” - Do you?)
b. Sharing God’s Plan (God’s plan is from something to something, but remember, “When you leave something wrong for something right, there will always be an ite to fight”)
Now finishing part 5 - where we didn’t get to last week:
III. Sharing God’s Mission
III. Sharing God’s Mission
9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
God tells Moses - “…I will send thee…”
Notice how God does not tell Moses that He is sending Him to Israel…
Israel did not need a motivational speaker, a life coach or a how-to expert…
They needed a DELIVERER!
God tells Moses HE is sending him to “Pharaoh”…
True answers come from God… God goes right for the heart of the problem and in this case, it’s Pharaoh!
Now Moses get’s his job from God…
The question is, what will he do with it?
Equation and Solution:
There’s a problem >>>>> God is the solution >>>>>> but He works through human’s to accomplish His desire
“The cry of the children of Israel is come unto me”
“...I will send thee unto Pharaoh...”
Why? “...to bring my people out of Egypt.”
30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.
37 Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; 38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
15 But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
Now part 6 - Moses’ Response to God
Now part 6 - Moses’ Response to God
We get to hear the conversation between God and Moses on the mountain top as God spoke out of a burning bush…
1. The Question of the Call
1. The Question of the Call
11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
“Who am I to go?”
In relation to the victorious nature of God’s call, is what Moses think of himself important? No...
Is what the Israelites think of him important? No...
Is what Egypt thinks of him important? No...
Not when it’s God’s call...
Moses had the opportunity to witness some of those Israelite women reject the Pharaoh’s orders to obey God first...
Now God was speaking to Moses through a burning bush and an angel of the Lord...
It was his turn… what would he do?
35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
The same man who fled Egypt in fear, was to return to Egypt in faith…
The same man who was refused by his people, was to return to his people as a ruler…
God gives His leaders encouragement:
5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee:
Be not dismayed; for I am thy God:
I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee;
Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
5 Fear not: for I am with thee:
I will bring thy seed from the east,
And gather thee from the west;
Moses’ first response to God’s calling on his life was not a response of faith, but a response of questioning the call...
2. The Qualification of the Call
2. The Qualification of the Call
12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
“Certainly”
“Token”
It was as much a promise as God’s promise in the rainbow:
13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
It was as much a promise as God’s promise to Israel that whomever placed the blood over the doorpost of their houses would not have their firstborn killed while in Egypt:
13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
“When”
God’s call is sure...
The only thing unsure in the calling of God is ourselves typically...
3. The Quickening of the Call
3. The Quickening of the Call
13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? 14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. 15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
50 This is my comfort in my affliction:
For thy word hath quickened me.
This was a solidification…
A stamp of approval…
A stamp of power on the call for Moses…
Who should I say sent me???
“The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you…”
Interesting note: Moses had to know who God was before he could tell Israel who God was…
God tells him, “I AM THAT I AM”…
Then he was instructed to tell Israel, “I AM hath sent me unto you…”
All throughout the Bible, God communicated with His servants this way...
He would say “I AM hath sent you...”
“I AM hath delivered you...”
“I AM the LORD that brought you...”
